Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ukma!simon
From: simon@ms.uky.edu (G. Simon Gales)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Irwin tape drive (10 meg) & Sco Xenix 286 2.2.3
Summary: Will it work?
Message-ID: <13348@s.ms.uky.edu>
Date: 28 Nov 89 03:11:43 GMT
Reply-To: simon@ms.uky.edu (G. Simon Gales)
Organization: U of Kentucky, Mathematical Sciences
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I'm trying to get my Irwin 10meg tape drive to function on my work computer
under Xenix 286, version 2.2.3.  The drive does fine under DOS, but a Xenix
format always fails eventually (ioctl fails on track 8 (9?)).  I am using 
bulk-erased tapes. 
After starting the format, the servo write appears to be done successfully 
(format spins tape silently for 15-20min).  Then the 'formatting track ##'
appears, but I get an error message just after it starts to format track 9.
Writing to a formatted (???) tape only produces write errors.

Does the Irwin drive only work under 2.3?  Noone at work can find a new set
of 2.3 disks, so for now I'm stuck at 2.2.3.   

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Simon Gales@The University of Kentucky
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